FOTP 2013 Full Report

Anna Borshchevskaya is communications director at the American Islamic Congress and afellow at the European Foundation for Democracy, where she focuses on the former SovietUnion and the Middle East. Previously, she was assistant director at the Atlantic Council’sEurasia Center. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Advanced International Studies, and has published in the MediterraneanQuarterly, Turkish Policy Quarterly, and Middle East Quarterly, and at Washingtonpost.com,CNN.com, FoxNews.com, and Forbes.com. She regularly provides translation and analysis forthe Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth. She served as a Eurasia analyst forFreedom of the Press.Luis Manuel Botello is the senior director of special projects at the International Center forJournalists (ICFJ). He worked for 10 years as ICFJ’s Latin America program director andlaunched its International Journalism Network (IJNet), an online media-assistance news service.He has worked in more than 20 Latin American countries on issues related to digital mediainnovation, specialty reporting, press freedom, and ethics. He is a regular on-air media analyst atCNN Español, NTN24, and Al-Jazeera. He previously worked as a journalist for TelevisoraNacional in Panama. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Louisiana State University’s Manship Schoolof Mass Communication, where he received his master’s degree in mass communications. Heserved as a Central America analyst for Freedom of the Press.Lisa Brooten is an associate professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Digital Mediaat Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her research focuses on media reform anddemocratization, local and global social-movement media, community media, indigenous media,human rights, gender and militarization, and interpretive, critical research methods, particularlyin Southeast Asia, where she has lived and conducted fieldwork for many years. Currently, she iscompleting a comparison of media reform efforts in Thailand, the Philippines, and Burma fundedin the initial stages by a 2008 Fulbright Research Fellowship. She is also a member of theFulbright Specialist Roster for Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippines. She served as aSoutheast Asia analyst for Freedom in the Press.Sarah Cook is a senior research analyst for East Asia at Freedom House. She manages the teamthat produces the China Media Bulletin, a biweekly news digest of press freedom developmentsrelated to China. She previously served as assistant editor of Freedom House’s Freedom on theNet index, which assesses internet and digital media freedom around the world. She coedited theEnglish version of Chinese attorney Gao Zhisheng’s memoir, A China More Just, and was adelegate to the UN Human Rights Commission for an organization working on religious freedomin China. She received a master’s degree in politics and a master of laws degree in publicinternational law from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where she was aMarshall Scholar. She served as an East Asia analyst for Freedom of the Press.Zselyke Csaky is a research analyst for Nations in Transit, Freedom House’s annual report ondemocratic governance from Central Europe to Eurasia. She served previously as a researcher forFreedom of the Press. Prior to joining Freedom House, she worked for the Hungarian and U.S.offices of Amnesty International. She holds a master’s degree in international relations and3